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Instos get serious about climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... a year in which many Australian investors put their money where their mouths were on climate change. AMP Capital, Hunter Hall, UCA Australia, UniSuper and HESTA all announced fossil fuel screening policies, while Simon Sheikh launched Future Super, a ...

New masters of universe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
Looks like Halloween has come early to Wall Street. Equity indices fell -- big time -- on 'The Street' right at the stroke of October. The Dow's down 1.4% (with Transport down 2.5%); the S&P 500 fell 1.3%; the Nasdaq's off 1.6% and the Russell 2000's ...

Morphic global fund added to the Macquarie Wrap

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... 12, 2014. It has about $50 million in funds under management and was co-founded in 2012 by two former long standing Hunter Hall managers, Jack Lowenstein and Chad Slater. BT Financial Group boutique asset manager Ascalon Capital Managers acquired a minority ...

A tale of two A's

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
We were treated to a tale of two A's over the past 24 hours - Apple and the A dollar. It was the best of times. Apple scripts jumped by 3.1% -- up 26% this year -- after launching its new products into the market. "Apple announced a smartwatch, mobile-payments ...

HOSTPLUS to buy $600m Woolworths properties

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
Industry super fund HOSTPLUS had joined forces with Charter Hall Group to acquire a $603 million portfolio of properties from Woolworths-owned ALH Group. Woolworths described the deal, which is due to go down in October, as "one of the largest hotel ...

Future Fund appoints CIO from within

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
The Future Fund has appointment its former head of infrastructure and timberlands as chief investment officer. Raphael Arndt will start on his new role immediately and will be responsible for leading the investment team in developing research, due diligence ...

Ascalon acquires stake in Morphic AM

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... services. Morphic now has $50 million in funds under management and was co-founded in 2012 by two former long standing Hunter Hall managers, Jack Lowenstein and Chad Slater. Morphic's flagship fund, the Morphic Global Opportunities Fund (MGOF), invests ...

'As expected' changing expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
By all indications, Wall Street should have closed on the hop last night, but it didn't. The S&P 500 index ended practically unchanged - up 0.01% -- despite the FOMC announcing it's steady as she goes (as expected) and the economy rebounding in the ...

Frantic pace of alternatives growth revealed

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... the list are: Macquarie Group, QIC, AMP Capital Investors, Industry Funds Management (IFM) Investors, Lend Lease, Charter Hall Group, Whitehelm Capital (formerly Access Capital), RARE Infrastructure, Colonial First State Global Asset Management and Hastings ...

So good but for the wrong spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
The sun is shining, the sky is blue and the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker appears to have celebrated America's 'Independence Day' three-days early. You'd be jingling your bells and singing hallelujah too, Virginia, when you look at what ...